I grew up a Windows geek, so I’m not an anti-Windows type. I generally believe people should use what they love.
And that is why I use Ubuntu MATE as my main daily driver. I love a lot of *nix philosophies and methods anyway, but today’s bit of happiness is this: Upgrading to a newer version of Windows involves running a setup that takes over. You’re a passenger on a ride, and you’re stuck until it’s done.
But here I am in Chrome, browsing and working and wasting your time by writing this bit of praise while the new release is isntalling.
I love that.
Sometimes there’s problems - and I really hope I get lucky with no problems; but there’s problems with every OS. That’s a fact of life.
But just the little breaths of fresh air are wonderful.
Thank you to everyone who makes *nix and specifically Ubuntu MATE what it is. <3
I’m a bit bummed because some settings I wasn’t expecting got reset, for example my compose key (set as capslock, an otherwise useless key! lol), but hey, that’s life. edit: Some settings went wonky while the upgrade was working, but came back after the reboot. Odd!
Installation was quite breezy! Now I have to poke around and find the new cool toys.
I love being able to be passionately adoring of my OS. <3
Personally, I love the CSD integration. I thing it looks great especially since it automatically adjusts to my system them. I only wish more applications made use of it!
I save myself a lot of work and have updated from 14.04 through 16.04 without having to re-copy anything to my home folder, that said, I may have done a complete reshape of my partitions in the meantime but can't remember! (I have a test partition too!).
The best trick to employ is the following:
To further speed up your re-installation process, after your first boot and you ran "dpkg" per my recommendation above, run a meta command in the terminal with a pre-written favourite package list like the example below (make a copy and save for future use!):
